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Alastair McCready

Four years after coup, Myanmar regime prepares for ‘violent, messy’ polls

Police cover their faces to protect from the dust as they walk with census enumerators at Thae Chaung village in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, in 2014 [File: Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]

Myanmar’s 2024 census was almost certainly the most contentious – and deadly – ever conducted.

Enumerators and their heavily armed guards from Myanmar’s military were subject to repeated attacks from opposition groups, as they stumbled through a failed attempt to document the country’s population between October and December last year.

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